See When a Trophy Was Awarded

I received a call today from a Mother who wanted to award prizes when her students earned trophies. Her question was, "Is there a way to see when a trophy or ribbon was awarded?"

The answer is yes. Hover over a trophy with your mouse, and the course name and the date it was awarded will be displayed.

The most recently awarded award date will be displayed on the far right.

Improved Review Schedule

We made an important change to HomeSchoolAdvantage this morning. We improved the review schedule for when to quiz a student on a fact.

We found that as facts moved into higher mastery levels students were forgetting them too frequently. So, we added more reviews into our review schedule and we adjusted the spacing between reviews.

We added more boxes to the Rate A Fact widget to reflect the additional reviews in the new schedule. We also changed the popup microhelp strings for the Rate A Fact widget.

Hopefully, students will not notice the change at all. They will simply find it easier to learn new facts over time.

Course Levels on the Assignments Page

The Assignments page is only visible to parents, and it is the most important page in HomeSchool Advantage. On this page you can see the courses that are available to your students arranged by subject. We are frequently releasing new courses and will keep you posted as they are made available. If you have suggestions for new courses, let us know!

The courses are listed in numerical order, the order we recommend that they be taken. The 100 level are the easiest courses and the 500 level the most difficult.

To assign a course in a subject simply click on the check box next to the course name. Make sure you press “save” to save your selections.

If you have a student in lower elementary start by assigning them only 100 level courses.

At middle elementary, 100 and 200 level courses.

In upper elementary 100, 200, and 300 level courses.

Older students are assigned course at ALL LEVELS.

For some subjects, like Geography, even adults should be assigned the 100 level course. The 100 level geography courses contain fundamentals that everyone should know. Older students will complete 100 level courses very quickly. However, it would be a mistake to skip these courses because most students DO NOT KNOW all of the facts covered at the lower levels.

In summary: Your student will have a daily worksheet for each subject where you have assigned courses. Facts are added to the daily worksheet from only one course at a time, the lowest number course you assigned in that subject. We automatically advance to the next highest course when the previous course is complete.